Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought from Gratian to Aquinas

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Defining moral dilemmas Terminology A precis of chapters Gratian and his glossators on conflicts in the natural law Gratian`s Demtum: Its influence and method Conflict and concordia Conflicts within the ins naturale Gratian`s Gregorian defense of moral dilemmas A denial of moral dilemmas in the Glossa ordinaria Gratian`s legacy on moral dilemmas Twenty moral dilemmas from two early thirteenth-century summaries of theology: William of Auxerre`s Summa aurea and the Franciscan Summa Halesiana Two Summae and their authors Two discussions of perplexitas Moral dilemmas of the spiritual perplexity variety Moral dilemmas of the corporeal perplexity variety Appeals to the lesser evil principle Four types of moral dilemma Raymond Lull and moral ensnarement in the Vita coaetanea The authorship of the Vita coaetanea The Conversion Dilemma The Teacher-Student Dilemma The Divine Command Dilemma The King`s Edict Dilemma Principles of the Lullian moral universe: providence or moral luck? Thomas Aquinas, moral dilemmas, and a missing article from Quodlibet XII The Thomistic texts Twentieth-century controversies Alan Donagan`s interpretation of Aquinas iwennetn-century controversies Can agents always defuse the after-effects of past mo A text for the missing article onperplexitas Thomas Aquinas on failures of practical reasoning: Why synderesis doesn`t inoculate agents against malformed conscience dilemmas The defense of the Divine Command Principle Malformed conscience dilemmas after Aquinas Aquinas within the tradition Moral dilemmas in the early Thomistic tradition: Johannes Capreolus and the Deceiving Demon Dilemma A review of moral dilemma strategies Doing evil while intending good The DeceivingDeman Dilemma An attack on the principle of the lesser evil Questioning the facts of the Deceiving Demon Dilemma Thomistic appeals to the principle of the lesser evil Thomism and irresolvable prior-fault dilemmas